Jon Stow Consulting – Tax Solutions

Rather than bore you with another “Emergency” Budget Summary, and many of us including me have been inundated with very similar emails and documents containing the “key” facts, I am going to be picking out and expanding on a few items of interest. I think Furnished Holiday Lettings are a good place to start because they are an area of entrepreneurial potential and should be of interest to many.

In the 2009 Budget Chancellor Darling announced that the special arrangements distinguishing Furnished Holiday Lettings (FHL) from other types of letting … Continue Reading

There has been a great deal in the professional tax press recently about HMRC’s intention to compel submission of corporation tax returns on-line using iXBRL from April 2011.

Quite apart from the expense issue from the taxpayer end in terms of the extra software costs required in development, it fills me with foreboding when the existing system, which is less complex, simply doesn’t work well.

I did try using HMRC’s own software on an experimental basis, but it involved downloading a huge editable PDF … Continue Reading